Innovation within an Early Childhood Education and Care Organisation: A Tri-Perspective Analysis of the Appropriation of IT

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dc.contributor.authorPlumb, Melindaen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorKautz, Karlheinzen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-04T01:20:18Z
dc.date.available2014-12-04T01:20:18Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_NZ
dc.date.issued2014en_NZ
dc.description.abstractEmpirical studies on IT in early childhood are scant, despite an increasing number of early childhood education and care organisations choosing to innovate with IT. This paper presents a framework to understand the appropriation of IT as an innovation within such an organisation. The framework consists of three perspectives on innovation: an individualist, a structuralist and an interactive process perspective. While the first focuses on concepts such as leadership, IT champions, previous IT exposure, the second focuses on organisation size, parents as stakeholders, competitors and government compliance and regulatory requirements. The third perspective views the innovation as a dynamic, continuous phenomenon of change, produced by the continuous interaction of the innovation content, its context, and the appropriation process as related in an interactive process. We demonstrate the framework’s applicability and determine that the three perspectives supplement each other and together provide a deeper understanding of the IT appropriation process.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 8th - 10th December, Auckland, New Zealand
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-927184-26-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/8150
dc.publisherACIS
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.titleInnovation within an Early Childhood Education and Care Organisation: A Tri-Perspective Analysis of the Appropriation of ITen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution
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